What have you had spawn and survive?

NexDog

NexDog

Snail Killer
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Interested to hear of people's experience with stuff spawning, hatching and actually surviving.

In my case my pair of Clarkiis were paired for 4 years, live happily in an anenome but i never saw them spawn or eggs or young. The male jumped to his death a few weeks ago unfortunately.

However I have two Banggai Cardinals that have been with me for 2 years. A few months ago a visitor pointed out a tiny black and white speck in the anenome and true enough it was a baby Banggai. He is now a decent size.

And last week I found yet another baby Banggai living in the anenome. It's getting bigger by the day. :)

Seems they are surviving by living in the anenome. Pretty weird. :p

Please share your experiences. :)
 
I've never heard of a clown baby surviving on its own in a reef tank (that is, not in a special tank with special conditions; I'd certainly be happy to hear of it if someone did) , but Banggai's are quite commonly reported to do so. :)
 
The only thing that I have that reproduce are my Jumbo Nassarius, tho it's been awhile since they have, and my Rbta spilts quite offten.
 
longspine urchines help increase survival rate as the young can hid way inside the spines. u can make a mock urchin using plastic tooth picks and epoxy puttie that hardens
 
ya, i forgot about all of the spagetti worms, and asternia, and stommellas, etc. I did find a baby short spined urchin in my refugium.
 
Does aiptasia count? :(

I have cerith snails spawn all of the time, and the tiny baby snails get caught between the magfloat and the glass. :( :(
 
Bangaii, cerith snails, turbo snails and perhaps a few other crawlies I dont know about.

Flatworms, as someone mentioned above. :lol:

My clowns spawn on a regular basis but never any young ever seen.
 
once i seen a abalone go to the top of a rock then give a few big squirts, then fall asleep on said rock. wouldnt put my hand in the tank for days. his O face was just so funny i couldnt stop laughing.
 
Sea cucumbers. Somehow, my main sump is now populated with very small sea cucumbers less than 3/4" in length. They look like miniature versions of the 8"-10" originals in the main display.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14741258#post14741258 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dwd5813
ceriths, stomatellas, pods.. nothing out of the ordinary yet.
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I love it when the stomatellas spawn! Been lucky enough to see it happen twice. I get so darn excited when the spit out the eggs:)
 
OH, and it's a real hoot to watch the nassarius snails mate. One will deposit a package and the other will do a flip like squirm. Pretty cool little dance they do on the glass when laying the eggs. Only then to slide down the glass to the sand when finished...lol

Did not physically witness the sun coral spawning, but have about 6 little sun corals that have popped up in the tank, so it happened at some point. Wish I had not missed that.

Still have not caught the cleaner shrimps spawn as that happens late at night.
 
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